Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

If man doesn't dream, he has nothing.""A man whose dreams will never come true still has nothing.

I just finished running, and I look and smell like nothing very pleasant. Why, oh, why did he have to bump into me now?

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.